Airborne? Virus on pollution particles * ’If we’d not been tough, Israel (200 dead) could have been like Belgium (6,700)’ * Taylor Swift v Soros * ’Despicable’ UK wedding

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Saturday, April 25, 2020 [Scientists in Italy find coronavirus on air pollution particles]( By [TOI staff]( [In preliminary study, researchers detect distinct virus genes on airborne pollutants, suggesting disease could travel farther by air than previously assumed]( [WHO says no evidence recovered COVID-19 patients are immune to reinfection]( By [Agencies]( [Vaccinations drop amid COVID-19 fears, raising specter of fresh measles outbreak]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu expresses concern over virus reinfection in call with world leaders]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Israel health chief: If we’d not been tough, we could have wound up like Belgium]( By [TOI staff]( [If early trends had continued, today there’d be 600,000 sick Israelis and thousands ‘would have ended their lives,’ says Bar Siman-Tov, defending policies amid economic meltdown]( [Cabinet orders lockdowns on virus hotspot neighborhoods in Beit Shemesh, Netivot]( By [TOI staff]( [Checkpoints dismantled as lockdown of virus-hit Arab towns in north lifted]( By [TOI staff]( [WWII veteran dies from coronavirus 100 years after his twin died of Spanish Flu]( By [TOI staff]( [Grandson of Philip Kahn says he would often warn that history repeats itself, ‘knew the irony of what was going on’ after he began coughing]( [US coronavirus death toll tops 50,000 as some Georgia businesses reopen]( By [Michael Mathes]( [Virus drives US unemployment toward highest rate since Great Depression]( By [David Crary, regina garcia cano and Angela Charlton]( [Taylor Swift calls out Soros family’s ‘shameless greed’ in beef with record co.]( By [Emily Burack]( [Pop superstar draws criticism as white supremacists seen associating her post with widespread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Soros]( [Virus-linked increase in US online activity raises fear of anti-Semitic violence]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Analysis / Biden seeks fundraising, foreign policy support from Jewish backers]( By [Ron Kampeas]( Gnarly [Watch: Police swarm Tel Aviv surfer said to refuse to leave water]( By [TOI staff]( [Law officers enforcing virus restrictions use helicopter, jet skis, boat to round up boarders; 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